The Besamin Rosh Forgery, Controversy, and Halacha 03 15 2026

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

want to talk about basam. It's if it's a very interesting story. It's a fascinating story. I do need to apologize though. It's it's a bit like a it's a diet drink. It doesn't have a lot of terra calories per se. Um but it's it's interesting and it's you know it has some it has some Yeah. So I just I want to open with this because it's an important the stipler in Kerson his letters in Kiml in and he he has a letter as follows and I I want to open with this even though I don't know that with this even though I don't know that we'll adhere to it perfectly but it's it's like a guiding light to keep I guess in the foreground as we discuss this. He says it's not good to be the the negativity about the and he gives a few reasons. He says reason number one is because of his illustrious fathers. Reason number two is it's already 150 years since the story of the stipler writes and maybe he already had a reason number two. Reason number three, he says there's many that were taken by him that went along with him and even if it was an accident, it's it's embarrassing. People might be dejected or come to, you know, some sort of negative outcome by realizing that someone who made grievous grievous errors, you know, grievous errors. says

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1. 0:00want to talk about basam. It's if it's a very interesting story. It's a fascinating story.…
2. 3:14who was the father of the who was the ra in Berlin was also tremendous uh…
3. 6:18see at that time. Alexandria was actually famed for its library you know in ancient times…
4. 9:21different and safer anonymously came out um called Mitzvako to argue on the safety of casil…
5. 12:26like things that very much lent authority to the early husk this is in the late…
6. 15:29deathbed and and maybe he didn't go through the entire safer you know cover to cover…
7. 18:30he saw the I have no reason to to to argue in it meaning he the…
8. 21:35the the the I wanted to show you a few of the like striking examples of…
9. 24:36that came close to holding like this to show you that it's not really as outlandish…
10. 27:40tradition in not like that meaning that's who know who knows how many throughout you know…

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